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Someone tries to kill Morgan Edge and he barely survives. He accuses Lena of being behind the attempt and vows to destroy her. When Lena fears her hatred for Morgan will take her to the Luthor dark side, Kara steps in to help her friend. Meanwhile, after Sam realizes she’s losing time, she confides in Alex who decides to run some medical tests to see if she can find out what’s going on with her new friend

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Kara wakes up from a nightmare where she saw Reign and the next Worldkiller who activated at the end of the last episode.

The DEO
Kara tells Winn and J’onn about the vision in her nightmare. Mon-El enters and adds that while Worldkillers were created on Krypton, they probably genetically modified to be resistant to kryptonite. Mon-El also mentions that sometime in the future the Legion battles General Zod, to which Winn say “but Superman killed him.” Winn has run some analysis and thinks they may be able to figure who the other Worldkillers are by looking at the pattern of space debris.
—L-Corp Hospital:
Alex is preparing to run some test on Sam. First up, and MRI.
—National City:
James and Lena walking down the street are discussing a potential date when they run into Morgan Edge. The three share a tense moment before Edge drives off in his car.
—Edge’s Car:
Edge is driving when the gas pedal sticks as the car continues to gain speed and as it appears someone has taken control of the car. He is able to exit out of the trunk before the car crashes off of a dock and explodes.
—CatCo
Edge storms into CatCo and accuses Lena of hacking his car. Edge warns her that she better be ready to finish what she started, ending with that he “never loses.” Edge is forcefully removed from the premises and banned from CatCo.
—L-Corp Hospital:
After the MRI is finished, Alex examines the results and doesn’t see anything wrong with the images. Alex says that they’ll need to send the results to a specialist along with a blood sample. While taking the blood sample, Sam expresses regret with lying to Lena about missing her work obligations so she can deal with her personal health.

Alex offers Sam some reassurance, convincing her to talk to Lena and Kara.
—CatCo
Eve brings in a cup of coffee for Lena, who takes a sip and starts convulsing and foaming from her mouth. The coffee she drank was poisoned. James runs out to the coffee cart to find it deserted and a shady-looking worker running down the street. James purses him and catches him, but before he can get any information, the worker is shot by a sniper.

Kara flies Lena to the DEO where Alex diagnoses her and figures out she’s been poisoned with cyanide. Alex needs to slow her body down to stop the poison from spreading, so Kara uses her ice breath to slow Lena’s vitals down and saving her life.
—National City’s Street:
Edge walks to his car when he is accosted by Guardian. James interrogates him, but Edge denies having anything to do with the poisoning.
—The DEO:
As Lena still is asleep and recovering, J’onn suggests that Kara take her back to CatCo and not wake up in the DEO.
—CatCo:
Lena comes to with James and Kara by her side. She tells the two that she had a dream of flying through the air with Kara. They convince her that is was merely a side effect of being poisoned.

James goes on to tell Kara and Lena that the bullet used to kill the hitman was made using cutting-edge technology that dissolved into nothing after impact. After James and Kara, Lena finds that L-Corp had tech like what was used in development. She goes to an L-Corp development site and finds her mother is waiting for her.
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L-Corp Development Site
Lillian says she is not surprised that Lena found and followed the trail she left for her and that she the one that killed the man who poisoned Lena and is planning to do the same to Edge, even after Lena tells her to stay away. Her mother also says that she is only pretending to be what she wants to be and hiding behind her duties at CatCo.
—CatCo
When she returns to her office, she’s approached by Alex and Sam. Sam tells her about the personal problems she’s been going through and reveals that her biggest fear is leaving Ruby behind on Earth without a support system, to which Kara, Lena, and Alex offer their support.

Lena goes out on her balcony, and Kara walks in asking her what she wanted to talk about earlier. Lena confesses about previously tried killing Morgan Edge and says that her mom is back in town. The two see Edge on TV talking to a reporter, and Lena figures out how her mom is going to go after Edge. Lena then asks for Kara’s help with saving Edge from Lillian.
—Edge’s Party
Lena and Kara show up at the gala that Edge is hosting. The two are able to get past security as Kara distracts them and Lena walks on in when the security guard tries to manhandle Kara she twists his harm hard. Lena finds Edge and approaches him, trying to get Edge to confess that he tried to kill her before her mom has a chance to strike. She has even brought a recorder along with her, so she has proof. Edge finds this hard to believe until, and one of Lillian’s drones starts shooting at him. Under pressure, Edge admits to everything from the lead poisoning and the poisoning of Lena’s coffee.

Lillian appears and approaches the two, she is upset that Lena didn’t let her kill Morgan Edge. Lillian summons one of her drones which transforms and encases her in a full Lex Battle Suit. Mon-El arrives on the scene to help Supergirl battle Lena’s mom. Edge seizes the opportunity and grabs Lena’s recording device and tries to run as Lena follows after him. Edge is stopped by James, suited up as Guardian, and hands Lena gets her device back to her. Meanwhile, Mon-El and Kara are able to disable Lillian’s drone armor using a tactic that Mon-El and Brainy used against Computo in the future.

Edge is arrested, and Lillian is taken away on a gurney.
—Kara’s Apartment:
Kara, Alex, and Lena and Sam are awaiting the results of the MRI back form the specialist. Alex gets the results and tells the others that all of her tests came back clear of tumors or disease. Sam’s still upset because she feels something is wrong, and Lena tells Sam to go home and spend time with Ruby.
—The DEO
Mon-El approaches Kara and makes a mention of how well they worked as a team, saying that he’s committed to being the hero Kara knew and taught him to be.

Winn tells Kara and Mon-El that he’s found four leads of potential Worldkillers. When shown pictures of the four, Kara singles out the one named Julia Freeman as being the one from her nightmare.

Superman vol. 2 #22, 1988
Part of the Superman reboot helmed by John Byrne in the 80s was that Superman was the only survivor of Krypton, thus rendering the various other survivors introduced throughout his history obsolete.

As always this didn’t stop creative writers from finding new ways to introduce and explain those characters such as using “pocket universes” where many Kryptonians had survived the planet’s destruction, Superman battles this universe’s Zod, and his accomplices Quex-Ul and Zaora. After their defeat, Superman decides he must carry out the death sentence passed on them before Krypton’s destruction.

Superman uses a portion of the pocket universe’s green Kryptonite, was immune to being from a different dimension, executes the three Phantom Zone criminals before returning to his home dimension.

While this was hardly the first time the Man of Steel seemingly has killed Zod, but it remains the most prominent and least ambiguous example in comic books, and the precedent by which Man of Steel abides.

In the movie, Superman II, Zod, Ursa, Non, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, and Superman are standing off at the Fortress of Solitude. Superman uses the molecular de-powering chamber in reverse to turn the Kryptonian criminals into your everyday human weaklings without their knowing. When Zod attempts to assert his dominance over Kal-El, Supes crushes the general’s hand and nonchalantly throw him into a bottomless crevasse of the Fortress. Lois gets in on the murdering spree as she sucker punches Ursa into the abyss… and no one bats an eye and they all have a good laugh

Man of Steel (2016)

Mon-El’s comment about Zod could be a nod to the Legion of Superheroes animated series episode where the team does battle with Drax Zod, a Kryptonian criminal who grew up in the Phantom Zone greatly influenced by evil forces.

Mon-El references Computo, a classic Legion of Superheroes villain

Computo was originally created by Brainiac 5 to be his mechanical assistant. Like all good robots, Computo goes rogue and becomes homicidal instead, and attempts to start an uprising of machines, creating an army of replicas which he uses them to spread terror.Computo realizes through his own calculations that the Legion will confront him, it redesigns itself into an ultimate form called Computo the Conqueror. He sends a distress signal to bring the Legionnaires to Earth only to create a weapon that neutralizes the Legionnaires’ powers. This forces them out of Metropolis, killing one of Triplicate Girl’s bodies in the process.

Lex Luthor’s iconic green-and-purpleexosuit, dubbed the “Lexosuit” by Winn was worn into battle by Lex and Lena’s mother Lillian Luthor

The iconic armor debuted in Action Comics #544 in 1983

Since then there have been various versions of the suit worn by Lex and most recently in the Rebirth Era of the DCU by his sister Lena.

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Epsiode 13:Both Sides Now

The DEO captures a second Worldkiller, Purity. Supergirl and Alex use very different methods of interrogation with Purity in the hopes of finding out how to defeat Reign. However, Purity escapes and attacks the city’s subway tunnels. Meanwhile, J’onn, Winn and Mon-El band together to fix the Legion ship.